Mending bodies, saving souls
a history of hospitals
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Author
Publication
1999 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
179,000 words, Guess
Page Count
716 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL378871M
- ISBN-100195055233
- OCLC Control Number40120280
- OCLC Control Numbermendingbodiessav00riss_997
- Library of Congress Control Number98040966
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2667118
- Goodreads1634431
Classifications
- DDC362.1/1/09
- LCCRA964 .R57 1999
Description
By chronicling the transformation of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding today's hospitals. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate hospitals in particular times and places, covering important themes and developments in the history of medicine and therapeutics, from ancient Greece to the era of AIDS.
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